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MedAllies' CEO John Blair and CMO Holly Miller explain how the Direct protocol is laying the foundation for more efficient and safer transitions of care, beginning to transform the Hudson Valley into something of a patient-centered medical community.
A doctor in Rhode Island, per his daily routine, has just updated and closed a patient's chart in the practice's electronic health record. As he punches up the next record or heads to the exam room, a routine of another sort is underway between the EHR and the state's health information exchange database.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has named members of a task force on PHRs and 10 workgroups that will develop new criteria for certifying health IT.